[ILUG] SSH dictionary attacks.

[Aine Douglas]

On 8/24/06, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Quoting Aine Douglas (aine.douglas at gmail.com):
>
> > I'm getting sick of seeing log entries for SSH dictionary attacks....
>
> So, you should filter the mechanism you use to view your logfiles
> (whatever that is) to omit essentially meaningless data like today's
> dozen runs of SSH dictionary attacks.

Thanks Rick, my problem was I was debugging and watching for log
outputs of an app with tail -f, and my output was getting lost in the
dictionary attack logs.

I've since found an easier way to stop this problem for debugging
processes. I establish all the terminal sessions I need over SSH, and
from one of them stop SSHD, and it doesn't kill my open sessions.

Thanks,

Aine.